JUST IN: NANS Fixes Date for Nationwide Protest In opposition to Tinubu’s New Tax Legal guidelines

The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) has introduced plans to embark on a nationwide protest on January 14, 2026, over the implementation of newly launched tax legal guidelines.

The affiliation warns that the reforms may deepen {economic} hardship for college kids and tens of millions of Nigerians.

In an announcement issued on Wednesday, the NANS President, Comrade Olushola Oladoja, expressed dissatisfaction with the Federal Authorities’s dealing with of the tax reform legal guidelines.

Oladoja accused advisers to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of providing what he described as misguided counsel able to creating pointless nationwide rigidity.

He additionally criticised the Chairman of the Federal Inland Income Service (FIRS), Dr Zacch Adedeji, alleging a failure to adequately handle stakeholder engagement and consultations previous to the rollout of the coverage.

Based on him, poor session and a weak implementation technique may undermine progress recorded in different sectors of the financial system.

Oladoja additional argued that the choice to begin implementation of the Tax Reform Regulation on January 1, 2026, runs opposite to democratic ideas and participatory governance.

“The choice to begin implementation of the Tax Reform Regulation from January 1, 2026, units a harmful precedent for a authorities that claims dedication to democratic values and participatory governance,” he stated.

He pressured that in a constitutional democracy, main insurance policies shouldn’t be imposed with out broad public consensus, noting reviews that the Nationwide Meeting had raised considerations over discrepancies within the gazetted model of the regulation.

Oladoja added that civil society organisations, youth {groups} and pupil our bodies had known as for the suspension of the coverage pending improved transparency and wider public sensitisation.

In response, NANS declared January 14, 2026, a Nationwide Day of Motion, directing all chapters, state councils and zonal coordinators to mobilise for peaceable protests nationwide, together with marches to the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

“There could be no authorities with out the ruled. Whereas energy might reside in workplaces, the facility of the individuals will at all times be larger,” Oladoja added.